"Travel with Art Lecture on the Art of Denmark", Betty Pappas, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1966.

"Travel with Art Lecture on the Art of Denmark", Betty Pappas, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1966.

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Baltimore Museum of Art;

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Baltimore Museum of Art; Art--Denmark;

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March 22, 1966 at The Baltimore Museum of Art, Lynn Poole introduced a film and lecture on the art of Denmark. The presentation was part of The Travel With Art series at The Baltimore Museum of Art. Each year, the art of seven countries was presented in lecture and in film. Lynn Poole was host for the monthly programs. This lecture by Betty Pappas was about Danish design. Betty Pappas, an expert on Danish design, was a columnist, editor, writer, and lecturer at the New York School of Interior Design.

Transcript

Mr. President, Mr. Director, Ladies and Gentleman, I would like to thank you very much for having invited my wife and me to be present here tonight. We are indeed very happy to be here at your beautiful museum and would like to express our gratitude for including Denmark in your (Inaudible 00:31) program.
We live in a period of International Corporation and the programs which you are presenting here in this city is, certainly promote the cultural exchange between countries to the benefit of all; therefore, we are grateful to you for having included Danish design in your lecture series. Danish design is not of recent origin (Inaudible 1:08) but built on very old traditions. Danish furniture, for instance, has existed as long as Danish home has existed, have existed, but of course, it has gone through many phases during the years. Uh, modern Danish furniture has preserved its contact with the old craftsmanship although modern methods of production have been adopted and new materials are being used. The same can be said about practically every branch of Danish Design�whether it is ceramics, glass, silver, textiles, carpets and so on. There has been the same trend in the field of porcelain and some of the patterns and the signs have been used for generations as for instance, the Flora Danica porcelain which has been in production, the royal porcelain, continuously since the year 1900, 18, 1800, the year 1800. We Danes like to identify Danish design with quality. Consequently, you will understand we are not always too happy when we see the many imitations made in other countries under such names as among others Modern Danish and Danish inspired, etc. Modern Danish design had its beginning more than 50 years ago and has continued to develop but never as intensively as in the last 20 years when more and more artists and architects work together with craftsmen and manufacturers. Furthermore, I think it�s important to underline that Danish Design is not necessarily identical with luxury as many seem to believe on the country it is really within the reach of most people. Danish design has also formed a cultural link between Danish craftsmanship and the sophisticated American public and it is, of course, a great pleasure for us Danes to see how Danish furniture and other variations of Danish design have found a place in so many American homes. Well, I�m not the one who�s going to speak on Danish design tonight. I will leave that to the eminent artic, art critic and artist orium , Mrs. Betty Pappas, and I can assure you that, uh, we are going, both my wife and I, really to now listening intensively to your lecture. May I thank you again for including Denmark in this program and may I wish you the best of luck with many more of such programs.
Thank you Mr. Ambassador. I perhaps should have told you that when he was Ambassador to Norway and in view of the fact that his wife, the charming Mrs. Runner, is Norwegian herself that there was an element of international quid pro quo in effect because at that time the Norwegian Ambassador to Denmark had a Danish wife. Mr. Ambassador I hoped by our program we shall give new meaning to the phrase Danish inspired, not the invidious one which sometimes exist that you mentioned and that Flora Danica will have today, as it should have with everyone, a real and general meaning.
As the Ambassador mentioned, we have the pleasure tonight of having an expert on Danish design. You may know her of the center spread of the New York Times, if you�re like me. Finding an expert, by the way, is not easy in any field. It reminds me somewhat of the New York policeman who found a body on Kosciuszko Street but he couldn�t deal with the spelling, problem of spelling Kosciuszko so he dragged the body to 25th street and made out his report. However, we have tonight Betty Pappas, who I am personally pleased to say from my own personal experience and from the tribute that has been paid to her by experts much more significant than I, recognizes quality in art and certainly does not put age before beauty. She is a columnist. You undoubtedly recall that she was for a long time the home editor of the New York Times and for something like seven or eight years originated the home furnishing, uh, special section in the magazine format of that great newspaper and inaugurated that famous double spread in the center which not only hannicled good things, but looked good. I only wish she�d had a photograph of herself in that spread. She�s been a columnist and today does a four times a week column or syndicate on Interior Decoration. She�s a lecturer at the New York School of Interior Design. She�s editor of, of a magazine now in its fourth year called New Ideas for Decorating. She�s a writer and I recall her articles in Interior Design and in House and Garden as I�m sure you do, but perhaps best of all you�ll recall her books, uh, Interior Design from A to Z, I�ve puzzled over that; I�ve tried to fill out all the letters, uh, The Personal Touch in Interior Decorating, one which I�m very suspicious of a kind of do it yourself business, be your own decorator, not on your life, thank you, uh, and in French La vid Pratid de la de Gracion published in 1963, A Complete Guide of House and Garden to Interior Decoration, not to mention the Betty Pappas Guide to Interior Decoration, and perhaps with a certain bravura How to Use Books in your Home and I hope she meant read them, but I�m a little bit disturbed by the, one of the most recent ones which is Home Decorating Made Easy. In any case, as feature writer, as feature editor, as home editor, as an editor of long standing for our very best periodicals and for her freelance work with This Week and Coronet and Colliers and Today�s Woman and many others, with a background which is impressive as all get out at Wellsley College, BA, and Columbia, MA, and I think most of her requirements for a PhD now, uh, well completed. One thing is missing I might say on the biography sheet, how old is she? I feel like a very old man when I talk to her, but I feel like a very young man when I introduce her, Mrs. Betty Pappas.
Thank you. I won�t tell you how old I am, but my daughter�s almost 19. Uh, the other thing I�m going to tell you, I�m gonna pick up a bit about food. The first time I ever went to Denmark, I arrived in the airport and I was presented ration tickets, five meals a day. I don�t think it�s necessary to go any farther. Uh, I am, however, going to talk about, uh, my first trip to Denmark, uh, because I found out then that it is possible, uh, to form a reasonably accurate impression of the character and characteristics of a country before one is, as much as set foot into one of its cities. Uh, the swift impact of the sight of the city from the air, uh, the look of the airport and the attitude of the people who serve you in it, uh, the ride in the outskirts of the city, uh, have to be either, uhm, delightful or dreadful, our sign points not to be disregarded. Uh, I�ve had many opportunities to investigate this truth. Uh, but the first time it came to me was a trip to Copenhagen, uh, in 1949. Uh, the trip, uh, the first of many to Denmark, uh, marked my first flight to Europe on a plane. The elapsed time between New York City and Copenhagen then was 18 hours. It was early morning and sunny as we flew, uh, high across the country side, uh, spotted with smallest houses in scale of with terrain. All appeared neat and orderly but not regimented as one of our own housing developments in this country might be. Each house seemed to be on its own with a strong sense of individuality and another thing, uh, each home seemed to be narrated to the artless gardens which surrounded it. Although everything about the scene had a kind of restraint, uh, there was none of the blatant colors that one might be aware of in other parts of the world, in India for example or in Italy. Uh, the view had a kind of carefully tended orderly appearance that made one realize these were pleasant surroundings in which to be living. I have not been taunted off by the Embassy incidentally. I really felt this way. Uh, such was my first evaluation of Denmark and such too why I have come to realize are the attributes of Danish Design�controlled and comfortable, uh, sensible as well as sensitive. Uh, design in Denmark is not so much the smashing or sacred Tour de Forest as it is part of a way of life. Uh, a way of life reflected even in such minutia as the garnishes and decorations on an open sandwich. I�ve even seen, uh, draftsmen in an architect�s office on opening their, uh, lunch boxes compete over whose sandwiches were topped the most interestingly. This is true because my own trips, uh, I always combine pleasure with business, particularly in Denmark and an investigation of the state of arts and crafts in the country, visiting is part of my business. I might best describe Danish design and what it can and does mean, uh, to contemporary Americans by giving a brief synopsis of how I passed the time on my most recent visit to Denmark only a couple of years ago. Uh, the morning after arrival an old friend suggested a joint for the day. Uh, a trip by air to Aarhus, uh, that�s Denmark�s second city, and on the Jutland peninsula. I might add that it took only a half an hour and it took me, uh, almost four hours to get here from New York today. Uh, it�s unpredictable that a train should be 30 minutes late, but it was. Uh, at any rate we started out for Aarhus and, uh, my friend promised to get us up and back in a single day and make it possible to see another area of the country. Uh, we were sitting on the terrace of D'Angleterre which is Copenhagen�s, uh, Grand Old Hotel, uh, sipping marvelous Danish coffee, discussing plans, and I asked for raspberries. Uh, berries of in the Scandinavia are fabulous. Uh, plight acknowledgement came as usual from our waiter, uh, but the berries were very slow in arriving. Later it turned out the chef, uh, had sent to the market for the berries not wishing to disappoint a guest. I, I, I think this is rather typical of a Danish attitude. This may seem to have nothing to do with design but I�ll get back to it. Uh, despite the delay, uh, we did make it to Aarhus that morning. Uh, uh, kind of interesting blend of, of old, new Danish architecture, uh, courtly old well-proportioned buildings with, uh, tall gabled roofs, uh, contrasting intriguingly, uh, with the most modern glass sided department houses. Our specific, uh, destination that day was a factory that produces one of the best and earliest types of wall hung shelvings and cabinets. Uh, this incidentally, uh, I have, had photographed all around the world today. I was talking about the wall hung shelf. Now if you don�t have a wall full of hung shelves, I don�t where you�ve been. I think this basically comes from Scandinavia and a great deal of Denmark, but at any rate, we were taking a trip to a factory that produces them. Uh, greeting us on this particular trip was a man by the name of Poul Cadobious, Poul, P O U L, you know, I never get these things straight. Uh, he�s one of Denmark�s bearded designers and, uh, what you may or may not know is that in Denmark particularly, and most of Scandinavia, the beard is the insignia of an Interior Designer. It�s not beatnik. Uh, from his factory, we went off to his house observing as we went, uh, what has always seem to me to be fabulous to Denmark and that is fantastic fashion which flowers are used as outdoor decoration. Uh, we in New York have, uh, Mrs. Lasker who plants a tulip or two. Uh, but here there were huge cast cement pots lining the entire boulevard, uh, compactly planted with a mixture of many flowers and exquisite colors, oranges and purples, pinks, crimsons, fuchsias. Uh, Mr. Cadobious� house had the quality of many Danish houses, uh, whereby you were made aware of, uh, growing things. Uh, the whole glass fronted living room and adjoining study looked out on a rose garden. Uh, the care police scrubbed and polished interiors with their emphasis on wood made a neat counterpoint to the lush out of doors. Uh, providing a link between the two was a plethora of, of potted greenery in the interior. Uh, the first time I went to Scandinavia, I was, I was very aware of the planted, uh, pots on window sills. The first time I ever came to Baltimore I was, I was aware of the clean stoops. (Inaudible 18:04) Uh, back in Copenhagen, uh, serious shopping which is, uh, is part of any woman�s plan in traveling, uh, came next. Uh, the first place, uh, I have always gone and, uh, a fast name place a, is a, a shop called Den Permanente. It isn�t really a shop. Uh, it skims the cream off Danish crafts. It was begun in 1931 and has constantly changing display of all kinds of home furnishings as well as, uh, such related areas as jewelry, scarves, aprons. Uh, the selection is controlled by a jury which is composed of artists, artisans, and architects who must pass on the quality of all items offered for sell. Uh, included are a range of choices from a child�s high chair to an old man�s leather covered racker. Uh, there are decorative ceramics and every kind of tableware. Uh, from Den Permanente on this particular trip, uh, we proceeded to and I, check this out, Oster Gurda, ok, uh, it�s awfully hard to get these pronunciations correct, uh, but this is the main street, the main shopping street of Copenhagen and today it�s, it�s a promenade from which all cars are barred, uh, making it a much pleasanter, much more comfortable, uh, much more delightful, uh, street on which to walk up and down. Uh, on this street is, is to my mind the most fabulous home furnishing store in the whole world. It�s called Illums�thank you benisse. You�ll never get it that way. You�ll simply have to check in with the doorman (inaudible 20:09). Uh, it looks like a completely modern building. Uh, it was however achieved by linking together several old buildings, uh, one of which dates from as far back as 1600 and all the buildings surround an old courtyard. The courtyard is roofed in with a skylight which is the heart of the store. Uh, the upper floors surrounded live balconies and, uh, from the main floor you kind of get tempting, uh, displays of the light that might be up there. Uh, here again is, is a clue to the success of Danish design. Although craftsmen of the country do not disdain lessons of the past incorporated for the example in this case in a building, they do not adopt a worshipful attitude toward these historic things but seek instead to incorporate them into today�s life. Uh, one of the best examples of this approach may be seeing (Inaudible 21:17). You just saw that on the film. Uh, I always think of them as the father of modern Danish furniture designers. Uh, as far back as 1924 I began teaching, uh, French and design at the Academy of Art in Copenhagen. Uh, believing that function was an extremely important part of successful design although not its end all, he began in 1931 to measure people in possession, socks and shirts, dishes and tablecloths and came up with a scale better adapted to comfort and convenience than have the earlier English cabinet makers who inspired his visual presentation. By this I mean the, uh, (Inaudible 22:00) designer chip-n-dale (Inaudible 22:02). Uh, what we consider Danish today seems to me, uh, still very influenced by that British tradition. Now in revisiting Denmark which I�ve been back to any number of times, uh, one of the people I went to see was a designer by the name of Fen Yule, uh, a man whom I think has made in the past two decades a very lasting contribution to Danish furniture divisions. eeUh, he�s an architect by profession and training, uh, but seems to me to be a sculptor by information. His chairs with, uh, carefully curved arms have a tactful as well as visual appeal, uh, but it feels well when stroked. A thought that struck me, uh, quite blessedly one day when I was interviewing Mr. Yule, he constantly caressed the, uh, arms of the chair in which he was seated and which happened to be one of his own designs, and I think this pleasurable touch, uh, has a great deal to do with the strong appeal of Danish furniture, uh, to those of us living in this country today. It�s an appeal that is achieved by, uh, having layer after layer, oil after wood, in place of applying, uh, slick, shiny lacquer. In recent years, our own furniture makers have taken this over from the Danes but they certainly started it. Uh, Mr. Yule at the time I last visited, which was just two years ago, was still happily installed in an attractive modern house that he had built and furnished over two decades ago. The house and its content, I�m happy to say in defense of modern, which I believe in, uh, had not deteriorated in the least. Uh, if anything the glass beside of the house improved, uh, for the inevitable priming, well you know flourished over much of the interior walls into the part of Danish design, uh, seemed to reinforce the architecture and in the dining room there still stood after 15 years the same teak-top dining table trimmed in small circles of pewter in light (Inaudible 24:39) pattern and also indicate to whoever sets the table the exact spot where flatware, glassware, and (Inaudible 24:46) will be placed. This is a kind of whimsy. Uh, at the home of another old friend, designer, uh, Eurin Windblod, have I done that right, we found, uh, that pixy, he use to tell me he wrote to his cat when he was away, uh, popping with new ideas. Uh, he was designing sets and costumes for theater, he was sketching glassware designers for a manufacturer; he was creating new ceramics, uh, for an exhibition, all with a kind of whimsy and sense of fun. I think it�s that light-hearted sense of fun. It comes through in even the most serious kind of Danish design. Uh, at this point by most of the experts as the most important designer in Denmark today, he works with about everything but furniture. His house, uh, teams with ceramics from all countries and periods which he studies for new technique and this is still another example of the Danish designer�s respect for the past but not, uh, completely being tied to it. There are many other designers, uh, I could mention but in so short a talk, there�s no time for complete survey. Uh, certainly mention should be and could be made of the silver designs early of George Jansen and later the simplified styling of a man like Ky Boyson who became perhaps better known, uh, for his jointed wooden toy animals. He once showed me a monkey, not a monkey, an elephant who had the longest gestation period of any toy on record, twelve months. Uh, been to, uh, ceramics from the royal porcelain factory, uh, on the, uh, collaboration of the, uh, artist Arnold Crub and, uh, then we get back to the Danica pattern, Frederick VI, uh, ordered, uh, a gift of it for Catherine II. It took, however, 13 years to complete this, uh, fabulous, uh, dinnerware set. There were more than 2500 pieces involved and by the time it was finished, the Russian Empress had died.
Now perhaps you, uh, rather look�how are we doing with my slides? Uh, I started off by saying that, uh, there were many people I had not mentioned�uh, isn�t it clear enough? Alright, lights down. Please. Maybe if I blow hard enough it�ll work. It did. I start with furniture because it seems to me that the, uh, most intriguing contribution the Danes have made to our current day American living has been in furniture and our furniture in chairs. Uh, I will quote one statistic�I�m not a great girl for statistics, uh, but the, uh, and I have to quote Danish krona and I�m not quite sure what they�re worth day, but between 1950 and 1964 the Danish furniture production, uh, jumped from 3 million krona to 250 million krona and it doesn�t matter what it amounts to, uh, the proportion is there. One of the best known and most remarkable, most talented men doing Danish furniture is a man by the name of Hans Wagoner. Uh, this is a chair of his that; it was first brought to this country as I remember in the early 50�s. It has been copied all over the world, uh, including Mexico. Macy�s in New York have had a fantastic copy of it from Mexico. The only problem was that it cost almost as much as the Danish original. It didn�t look quite so good. Next. Next. Uhm, this is another Wagoner chair. Uh, all work�s been done on Mr. Wagoner�s chairs. Uh, this one as you can see has a Chinese influence. Everybody from chip-n�dale on has adored to look at Chinese stuff and copy it. You can see the delicacy in this is much more distinguished than most. Next. Uh, the one thing one is always aware of in Danish design is, is a kind of, uh, sculptured, curvilinear quality. You can see how even the cushioning on this, uh, upholstered chair has a shapely look and you can also see how anybody might want to stroke the underarms of that chair. Next. Uh, again, uh, that kind of rounded quality which gets way away from the orange crate, but is inevitable and an important part of Danish design. Uh, the Danes also work with or have more recently with, uh, more modern materials, uh, molded ply wood, uh, metal, and that kind of thing. This chair was designed for commercial purposes, uh, but has been used in domestic installation. Uh, again this is kind of fun--that three-legged chair�uh, very, very modern, the molded plywood. It never, however, quite loses, uh, a kind of crafted priority which to me is more interesting than, uh, 95% of what goes on in the furniture manufacture elsewhere in the world today. Uh, this gets near to the (Inaudible 31:26) house. Uh, this was done by a young architect--he�s not so young anymore; he was when I met him, uh, but, uh, there�s a kind of neatness and control and again if you�ll notice, the cruel business you wouldn�t find that kind of curve would be much more stuck, I guess is the word I�m looking for than is in this particular example. Now we get around to a man by the name of Ernie Jacobson. I can�t remember whether this is the egg chair or not. I think, no I think the big one�s the egg chair but I went to an exhibition yesterday which is opening today in New York at George Jensen where there were Easter eggs from all over the world and, uh, putting on a real glass lawn honestly I was suddenly filled with shock was, uh, the egg chair and it does look like an egg. I don�t think there�s anything to say about that. It�s also one of Jacobson�s chairs and it, again, a, a very advanced and recognized idea introducing the chair because it is molded of plywood, the foam rubber is applied to it, uh, but it has a whimsy and a kind of delicacy and, and rhythm. This is an installation of the chair. It�s a hotel in Copenhagen, uh, rare hotel which Mr. Jacobson did. Now, uh, like money days, uh, they have marvelous qualities, they can also be stubborn. Uh, he wanted to do everything and he did. He did the furniture, the architecture, the design and came up with an amazing thing for Copenhagen to me. Next slide please. Uh, you can�t tell (Inaudible 33:42) glass thing in the middle of Copenhagen is filled with exotic orchids. It�s backwards but doesn�t matter. An orchid can always be backwards. Next. Uh, this is a hotel, I�m showing you these public places because to me, uh, restaurants and hotels and, uh, all of Denmark have a kind of design quality that, uh, one finds, uh, rarely elsewhere in the world, and you can see this is, uh, much simpler, less lush. There are no orchids in this place, uh, nor do you pay for them. Okay. Uh, women have a chance too. There are a couple of female furniture designers in Denmark, uh, I�ve always complained in this country that women are not even allowed to design ice boxes and ranges which they use, uh, but Copenhagen has a couple of quite great, uh, female designers, uh, among them a girl by the name of, uh, Ditzel. Uh, this is children�s furniture; you�ll notice �The cradle will rock� and those tables are more fun for kids to put one on top of another. I�ve seen it happen. Uh, it�s, it�s the feminine touch in design. Uh, I think this is when; this is Ditzel�s because another one of her designs, kids got to be teenagers. I often wished I�d had a, uh, I don�t know, would you call it a passion pit like that? (Inaudible 35:36) I looked at those girls enough. I got one out of, I got one out of line but, uh, what I was going to show you next, uh, was a couple of shots of, uh, Den Permanente, the, uh, government sponsored, uh, uh, shop. One of the things you see there are, uh, complete, and this was photographed in Den Permanente about two years ago, complete table settings and really it�s a joy to sit down at the table, not only for it to get, but for the way it looks. Uh, we rarely do this kind of thing so well. I can tell a horrible story of myself. As a reporter for the New York Times, I used cover table settings at many shops and my mother called me up one day and said, honey, you didn�t mean it did you? Uh, you couldn�t have been describing that horrible thing I want to see and I will not name the department store, but in Denmark its (Inaudible 36:34) look as good as this. Uh, this is just, uh, an idea of the way the shelves and the display looks, uh, at Den Permanente�be better in color, but we didn�t have a color picture open. Uh, lighting is the other thing that people rarely connect with, uh, Danish design, uh, but anyone who�s visited Copenhagen and, and spent some time in Tivoli, which I always think I was a kind of Hans Christian Anderson (Inaudible 37:10) for adults, uh, becomes very aware of the lighting. Uh, there�s one man in Denmark, uh, who�s done a great deal of it. His name is, uh, Holingston and this is an example of the kind of thing he does. Uh, what�s interesting about those louvers is they�re copper and they�re copper colored and the light hits up on them and they�re adjustable. Uh, I think a visit to Tivoli, uh, would probably be essential for the turning of any, uh, lighting designer in this country. Uh, little things like, uh, a little light in which there are mushrooms planted or water lilies and the lights kind of peek out from underneath them. It�s, it�s the enchantment; you get the, uh, normal kind of jazzy fireworks but they cannot compete with what�s installed. That�s just kind of a whimsical picture. I love arty photographs, and it�s another, uh, live with, uh, lighting fixture that happens to be in many colors and most effective. Uh, there are a few of them available in this country now, but and unfortunately again we did not have this in color. Now I�m gonna tell you how Danes combine things. Uh, this photograph was done in a small apartment in Copenhagen and it happens to be the home of a man who ran a furniture company. Uh, much of the furniture will look familiar to you but the arrangement won�t. Uh, the greenery in the window is rather typical, the undraped window, uh, the small scale of the room actually, uh, which is why the furniture applies so well to the way we live today. It�s all kind of scrounged in there. When you�re in it, you don�t feel that way, but you take that same furniture and install it in a (Inaudible 39:23) apartment and you have quite a different sense about how it looks. Uh, here�s one of those wall hung units and this is so absolutely part of the look of, of 1950�s and the 1960�s that�s fantastic. You�ll notice there�s color on those, uh, on the (Inaudible 39:48)�every, everything�s hung on the wall. It�s compatibly simple and, uh, there�s no interior design student in the country today who is not going to install that in an apartment. Uh, this happens to be the home of, uh, Mr. Cadobious in Aarhus and I show it because it does show that fantastic mingling of inside and out. That�s the entrance. Uh, notice the Oriental rug, uh, bright red wall and, uh, greens inside and out. We really can�t see where the inside finishes and the outside start. Uh, in the same house, this is the, uh, living room, uh, incidentally, the designer himself did that painting, I wouldn�t buy it, but it�s interesting. Uh, this is a piece of ceramic. This is the entrance to, uh, Mr. Windblod�s house and that lady holding the flowers in her hand isn�t really as large as she looks. She�s like about my size. Uh, she�s done ceramic and she�s always wearing a basket of flowers on her head--uh, rather pleasant welcome. Uh, this is Mr. Windblod�s studio. It�s a rather fascinating complex of about 10 or 12 houses and, uh, that�s him working away at something. I�m not sure what he�s working away at. Uh, but it is, uh, almost like an old guild set up. He has students around watching work, and, uh, of course the term of, of this kind of designing is that it does maintain an individual approach. Uh, this is the, uh, living room of that particular house, uh, the huge bunch of flowers, uh, again Oriental rugs, clutter, clutter, clutter, but clutter of marvelous things. This is my last arty photograph. I just love it. It�s Windblod with some glassware he�s design and I don�t know, it says something to me. I hope it says something to you. That�s it.
Thank you very much Mrs. Pappas. Can you see your way? I hope you have some feeling from this evening from the films and from what you have heard, whether you�re interested in Den Permanente or the Esarata without autos. If you can imagine automobiles barred from Charles Street, you have that lower Charles Street, you have some notion of what that�s like. If you�re interested in the crown jewels of Denmark which are fabulous examples of 15th and 16th century jewelry or what a 17th century castle of royalty looks like, you should go to Copenhagen or of course if you�re interested in modern furniture and want to see how it�s done and where it�s done or the paintings of Denmark�s best modern painters in the land of Hans Christian Anderson, the land too of course of Elsinore, a literary fame of World War II underground of silver and of Tivoli, that incredible spot by day or night, in the heart of a city which illuminates at the same time, educates perhaps and entertains certainly, the Ny Carlsberg Museum of Classical Sculpture which is without doubt the finest museum of its kind of classical sculpture, and certainly the best that is supported by beer, and I urge you if you want to support art, drink Carlsberg beer, the third awesome museum, the Rosenburg Castle, the churches, the circles where the castles in Copenhagen are situated with they�re 18th century quality. If you�re interested in Tycho Brahe and 16th century astronomy, or Illums Bolighus, I urge you to go to Copenhagen and Denmark. Mr. Ambassador, thank you for coming tonight. If anyone has any questions, I hope you will feel free to ask any of our visitors, uh, what you have to ask them, and if not, good night and thank you ofor coming.

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Archives and Manuscripts Collections, The Baltimore Museum of Art;

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Baltimore Museum of Art;

Date Original

1966-03-22

Date Digital

2011

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Sound;

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Digital reproduction of one sound tape reel, 45 minutes, 16 seconds

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Audiovisual Collection, AV.RR.11.B

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1961-1970;

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